Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keylor's successor is Kelso F. Sutton-not much of a musician but a tested manager. Sutton, who came to Time Inc. in 1961 after graduating from Harvard, served as TIME general manager before becoming a Time Inc. vice president and the corporate circulation director in 1972 and publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1978. He is committed to maintaining Arthur Keylor's heady pace. Citing his former boss's role as a leader in one of the country's "few remaining growth industries," Sutton says, "we intend to stay well ahead of the pack...
...Third Reich. As commander of Hitler's lethal submarine force, he masterminded the sinking of 14 million tons of Allied shipping during World War II. It may have been Dönitz's U-boat successes that led a desperate Hitler to designate him as his successor near the end of the war. The admiral subsequently ran the doomed country for 23 days, staving off the inevitable surrender while he operated a hasty sealift through the Baltic, enabling 2 million Germans to escape from the eastern provinces that would later be occupied by the Soviets...
...registration becomes, then, a way of saying no to a system that places spending for military accumulation above spending for human needs, a way of opposing a government that feels, as President Carter said last year, it has "no reason to apologize" to inhabitants of other nations whom his successor refers to as "barbarians...
...billion military budget allotment which President Carter will bequeath his successor--who is sure to boost that total by several more billion--is not just the largest peacetime military budget in American history. It represents a gigantic dollars-for-grabs party. Defense contractors won't even have to compete with each other for the privilege of building mobile missile systems, the new XM1 tanks, and other weapons still on think-tank drawing boards; there will be plenty...
...official confirmation - or denial. Nonethe less, it seemed a good bet that some abrupt bit of palace intrigue had indeed toppled Hua from his post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...